Thread: Calibre taking a long, long time to update metadata on sony prs650
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Old 06-05-2012, 12:21 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by hydin View Post
Metadata file is about 5megs big.

There's about 2500 books on there now. Opens pretty quick, interface is snappy, but for some reason moving books to calibre now takes a long, long time.

USB 2.0 ports are in use
With a lot of books on the device the metadata sync is always going to be slow. You want to make sure you move all the books in one go so that the metadata sync only happens once. The Reading List plugin can help with this (as well as being useful for other reasons)
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